Greatness Quotes - Page 18

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own.

You will be successful only in the field of your gift

Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions.

On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

You are the greatest undiscovered adventure of your lifetime.

Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and create it?

The key to your greatness is under your control. You are the one in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire.

The most important thing you can do for yourself each day is to create (in and around you) an environment that keeps you constantly inspired because when you’re inspired, there is absolutely nothing you cannot do.

Touch your goals everyday which entails carrying out a part of the plan to reach your goals within the time limit you have set

Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity.

One who conquers fear cannot be conquered by anyone.

Life is not just the passing of time; it’s also a collection of experiences from your past, present and future.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Stop wasting time, start investing time for that is the only way to greatness.

If you allow someone else to convert more time than you in your chosen territory, you automatically become a servant or a second class citizen in that territory and whoever it is who converted more time than you in that territory becomes your king and will lord it over you in that territory.

I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline

Surround yourself with things that inspire you every day. Let go of everything that drains your inspiration.

The level of happiness you experience through your interactions depends on the quality of your walk in love.

The great opportunity you are daring to get may not come at once. But it is possible that this opportunity is hidden in the tiny ones you neglect every day.

being different can work for the individual who are comfortable with themselves, and most importantly work hard to achieve greatness.

Focus on your potential not your past.

A great man is always willing to be little.

When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite with the time that you have.

We all have to be taught how to be thankful and once learned, it has to be improved and practised daily.

There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth.

Dream is the realm most people live their life.

What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.

Gather all your effort to achieve a single goal and you will be bound to succeed

There are opportunities for all of us, we just have to open our eyes and hold ourselves completely accountable

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

If you don’t convert your time into products, you will regret it. If you don’t multiply your life, you will soon find out that your life is almost finished with nothing to show for it.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.

Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.

To know what to do with time is to convert a day and to convert a day is to produce a product.

Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.

Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.

It's because I haven't courage,' said Samuel. 'I could never quite take the responsibility. When the Lord God did not call my name, I might have called his name - but I did not. There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.''I'd think there are degrees of greatness,' Adam said.'I don't think so,' said Samuel. 'That would be like saying there is a little bigness. No. I believe when you come to that responsibility the hugeness and you are alone to make your choice. On one side you have warmth and companionship and sweet understanding, and on the other - cold, lonely greatness. There you make your choice. I'm glad I chose mediocrity, but how am I to say what reward might have come with the other? None of my children will be great either, except perhaps Tom. He's suffering over the choosing right now. It's a painful thing to watch. And somewhere in me I want him to say yes. Isn't that strange? A father to want his son condemned to greatness! What selfishness that must be.

You become greater than what you conquer within.

When your focus is too narrow you can miss the big picture.

A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.

We seek excellence before we seek understanding, wisdom before we gain knowledge, success before we understand hardwork; for this reason we need great teachers and leaders.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness.

If you can know how to convert your time by investing it, then you can buy greatness with it.

The cream rises to the top, even if sour.

That is a vacation! It is the best time for you to be productive because you are not being distracted by work.

When you succeed in showing the real products that this disappearing life has produced, then you are said to be a winner.

Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.

Life is only worth living if it is used to produce products for the good of humanity.

If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.

You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.

The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.

Your goals should not be based on what you can do or what is possible but on what you want.

So because you are converting it, you are winning back your time.

If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance.

When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.